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Glove and worm

I didn't start the next pair of socks after all - I saw my partially-finished Koigu glove lying in the stash pile and it was looking kind of lonely. I ripped it back all the way to the cuff (I had completed three of the fingers) because I wanted to do a thumb gusset.

There are some interesting glove instructions in the Winter issue of IK. Unfortunately, I started knitting the glove before I found the article about gussets - about 5 pages back from the glove article. Since my own personal thumbs stick out from the side of my hand and not from some spot inside my palm, I decided the glove would be a lot more functional if its thumb protruded in a similar fashion.

I could not find the notes I made when I started the glove, although I wasn't looking very hard for them. And I couldn't find my tape measure, either, which would have been useful to compare my design to what is recommended in Ann Budd's "The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns" which I only recently realized includes some detailed glove instructions.

So my knitting efforts were about as disjointed as this blog posting. Which, not coincidentally, mirrors my mental state with my big convention approaching. Too make everything even more complex, we are also babysitting two nephews this week and making plans for my father-in-law's surgery tentatively scheduled for Thursday.

And to put the proverbial cherry on top, I got an email worm yesterday evening courtesy of an engineering department head at Colorado State University! I know it was not intentional, but I find it interesting that every single worm or virus my computer has contracted has come by way of the State of Colorado - either a state agency or a university. Norton Antivirus 2002 was giving my computer fits last year, so I disabled it. Last night I installed the 2004 version which I fear will also create as many problems as it solves. However, I think it got everything taken care of before spreading the worm further. But if anyone got a suspicious email from me yesterday - well, now you know why.

All of this brings to mind the other things besides virus protection that I have been negligent about: making regular backups, and de-fragging and cleaning up the hard disk. Bleh.

Comments

I like that word, "bleh."

Posted by: Lisa at February 24, 2004 06:54 PM

"We're from the government. We're here to help." Right?

Posted by: Patricia Tryon at February 24, 2004 11:26 PM